Same blog, new site

Well, that only took a month to do. Here were my steps:
First, I tried the TypeMover plugin, which didn’t work, something with the ftp configuration on my old server (norvell.wjh.harvard.edu). Nice attempts to help from Sebastian, the plugin creator, but no joy.
Tried a simple database dump and realized that I had forgotten or somehow screwed up my root MySQL password on my desktop server. Spent about an hour screwing around with that, using unwieldy command-line operations because I’ve never installed phpMyAdmin and have no time to figure THAT out now. Finally got a root user in with superuser privileges and was able to do the dump. (Note: I probably could have used the MT user for that, but, as usual, I had to do it the hard way….).
The rest was easy. phpMyAdmin on the new site, drop all the old tables from the database import the dump file. Forgot that the database contains the login, so spent a few minutes trying to log in until I remembered to pretent I was logging in on the old server. Adapted the configuration file, rebuilt, and whammo!: here I am.